All articles by Sarah Brady

Sarah Brady

UK Online Safety Bill: will age verification compromise data privacy?

Social media platforms must finally address the conundrum of online safety vs data privacy following the UK’s Online Safety Bill passing into law.

Google weighs up dropping chip supplier Broadcom – The Information

Broadcom supplies Google with TPUs which are integrated circuits used to accelerate machine learning workloads

Toshiba to go private after $14bn takeover

The multinational electronics conglomerate, which has been embattled by malpractice scandals since 2015, will now be back under domestic ownership.

Britain’s Online Safety Bill: was violence against women an afterthought?

More than one in three women in the UK have experienced online abuse on social media, with the figure rising to almost two thirds of young women.

Google unveils new Bard features

With ChatGPT’s popularity flatlining, Google is seeking to claim ground with several new features to entice users.

Unity retracts price increase after industry outcry

Unity, a popular games engine for indie developers, met with threats of boycott when it announced changes to its pricing plans last week.

Germany partners with TSMC to build chip expertise

Fifty students from Dresden’s University of Technology will travel to Taiwan for six months to complete an internship with TSMC.

TikTok fined $370m for violating children’s data privacy

Europe’s Data Protection Commission found that family pairing setting allowed an adult user (who could not be verified as the parent or guardian) to pair their account to a child’s account.

Alibaba to invest $2bn in Turkey business expansion

Alibaba, plans to increase investment in its Turkish e-commerce platform, Trendyol, by a further $2bn.

Uber agrees partnership with software provider Deliverect

Belgian unicorn, Deliverect, processed nearly 48 million online orders worldwide in Q1 2023, as the company continues to expand through its partnership with Uber.